Absent Illumination (The Transgressor)

At the height of the ecstasy, release
The flesh cast aside
The I was the self
The fiction of language
Not this I
Now beyond apprehension and isolation
Being itself without boundary

Madness diverts the steam of consciousness
Into the river of time
There past, present, and future are one
As preservation, creation, and dissolution

Disorienting, tormenting, the rebirth into spirit form
Relinquishing the solace of a past death in life
None shall pass the gate unclean
Corporality's disintegration
Neural paths are rendered waveform
Enter there and madness follows

Hear Me! Bornless one
Lord of this and all creation
I am you, my knee won't bow
No god shall come before myself

Inscribed in the dancing flames, the signal of destiny
Reach into the burning embers to claim the unearthed essence
Shadows spell another fate, inversion of atonement
When dead stars illuminate, godhood has been attained

The deity within the self
Perpetual immortal soul
Come the signs of darkness, rebirth
Disembodied, we've become

Bring back the head of the gorgon
Bring back the life giving flame
Hermetic keys to transmutation
Invocation of the unnamed

Ascent through the chaos dementia
Exploring the labyrinth of our darkest dreams
Revision collective mythologies
Becoming the absence of light in atonement

Known in myth and in magic to sage from time immemorial
A wizened hand points the perilous path strewn with remains of the unchanged
While the paths of all the others reach the same end, death
But for us, merely transformation, Ha

Depart the realm of the senses
Penetrate the mundane behind the veil
Refusal of crystallization
Effect transformation for stasis is the end